Across the world, cities governments and carmakers are shifting to Electric Vehicles (EVs) in response to rises in air pollution and greenhouse gasses. One of the main barriers to adoption to EVs in the UK is a lack of chargepoints, particularly in areas where people do not have their own driveways.
Charge my Street is a new community benefit society that installs electric vehicle charging points for homes without off street parking. Most electric vehicle charging happens overnight so we will use car parks that are empty to charge up electric vehicles.
2. Agenda
๏ต Welcome, Housekeeping & Introductions โ Paul Fisher (Charge my Street)
๏ต Overview of Charge my Street โ Daniel Heery (Charge my Street)
๏ต Environment and Electric Vehicles? โ Tony Haslam, Transition City Lancaster
๏ต Charging up your car โ Tim Barbary (Bay EV)
๏ต Local Government Policy โ Caroline Jackson (Lancaster CC)
๏ต The Charge my Street solution โ Daniel Heery
๏ต The Community Share offer
๏ต Investing online โ Dr Will Maden (Charge my Street)
๏ต Q&A, Close
๏ต Lunch and EV demonstration
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5. What will we do?
๏ต Give people the tools to locally finance a community chargepoint.
๏ต Build & manage charging points around Lancaster and Cumbria with every
home less than 5 mins walk from a chargepoint.
๏ต Encourage the take up of EVs, allowing people to save money on fuel costs.
๏ต Reduce air pollution, traffic noise and CO2 emissions.
๏ต Explore storage of renewable energy in EV batteries, reducing the need for fossil
fuels.
7. Fewer Greenhouse Gases
๏ต The IPCCโs most optimistic scenario for this century and
beyond is based on a B2 Model
๏ต B2 is based on local solutions to economic, social and
environmental sustainability.
๏ต i.e. Not having more than 150 mile range on your car is a
good thing!
๏ต Work Locally, Grow Locally, Buy Locally
8. Reduce the amount of smog-
forming pollutants
๏ต Electric cars will reduce pollution by between 32 โ 99%
๏ต Ref: Sherry Boschert, author of Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars
that Will Recharge America.
9. EVโs are Twice as
Efficient as Fossil-
Fuel Cars
๏ต Even with electricity from
the grid, electric cars use
54% of the fossil-fuel that
internal combustion cars
do
๏ต With more renewables
on-stream, this will rise to
74% in the next 5 years
๏ต Our policy is to use 100%
renewables
13. Charge my Street Challenges
1. 49% Lancaster District Homes Terraces / Flats
2. Few chargepoints
3. Highways heavily regulated
4. On street parking is political / emotional -
Councils lack the capacity
Cable trailing
across pavement
14. Total EVs based
on intention to
purchase
8
14
24
30
41
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
Already have one 1 yr 2 yrs 3 yrs 4 yrs
18. Installation & Use
Charge point & electricity
connection installed
Book
space
tonight
๏พ
Member gets
monthly bill for
power used
19. Solar Charging
๏ต Daytime charging with renewables
๏ต Towns & Villages in Cumbria and Lancs
๏ต Next site to be confirmed
20. The Community Share Offer
๏ต 4 Chargepoints @ ยฃ9K each + working capital
๏ต Community shares ยฃ27K +ยฃ11K from Innovate UK
๏ต Closes 31st March or earlier
๏ต Investment โ 2% interest after year 3, start to return capital from year 4
๏ต Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme โ 50% tax rebate - application submitted
๏ต Unsecured / Risk profile
21. Finances
๏ต Profits from buying electricity at 13p / kWh and selling for 38p
๏ต We estimate that we will earn ยฃ6,500 in 2018 rising to ยฃ16,000 in year 3.
๏ต This means that we will make a loss of ยฃ3,138 in year 1 which make back by year 4.
23. Get involved!
๏ต Invest and become a member
๏ต Spread the word amongst friends, neighbours, colleagues, family
๏ต Identify sites (and put in a friendly word)
๏ต Help leafletting, promoting at events
๏ต Join the Management Committee
๏ต Share our posts on social media
๏ต Buy an electric vehicle!
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25. Summary
๏ต Radical idea - first in the UK, probably Europe
๏ต Massive potential to:
๏ต support transition to low carbon
๏ต Improve air quality and noise
๏ต Make a return on your investment
๏ต This can only work with your support!
The story
About DH,
interested in purchasing EV nowhere to charge
Greaves Rd, Jams & Asthma, Trump
Com broadband methods
V2G โ improve renewables
co-ops UK Digital Platforms conference Dragons Den last Feb
Lancaster Guardian piece in paper โ meeting in May
Survey carried out โ EV switchers, is it a problem
Steering group July โ introduce themselves
Innovate UK funding start up approved in Aug
City council bid
Business plan developed in autumn
Community Benefit Society set up in Jan
Share offer launched today!
Along the way lots of advice and support from local organisations
Testing out over the past few months โ using free software
Bargain Booze - business
Boys & Girls Club โ community association
What is a community share offer โ Halton Hydro, More Renewables
ยฃ27K target โ 4 chargepoints, ยฃ36K with balance coming from Innovate UK funding, theyโve already committed
Today โ 31st March
Investment โ forecast to start paying 2% interest after year 3, return money to investors after year 4
Seed EIS โ potentially 50% off your tax bill
Unsecured โ risky, number of things that could go wrong, CSU mark
If we donโt reach the target then thatโs it โ petrol cars all round. Money will be repaid. Shell have won, Trump has won, Cuadrillaโs won.
Invest in a particular chargepoint
General pot
No guarantees
Another site then let us know
The story
About DH,
interested in purchasing EV nowhere to charge
Greaves Rd, Jams & Asthma, Trump
Com broadband methods
V2G โ improve renewables
co-ops UK Digital Platforms conference Dragons Den last Feb
Lancaster Guardian piece in paper โ meeting in May
Survey carried out โ EV switchers, is it a problem
Steering group July โ introduce themselves
Innovate UK funding start up approved in Aug
City council bid
Business plan developed in autumn
Community Benefit Society set up in Jan
Share offer launched today!
Along the way lots of advice and support from local organisations
